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The Soviet Union in Search of a New Economic Model

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Seventy years after the Bolshevik Revolution the Soviet Union is to embark on a new economic path which, according to Mikhail Gorbachev, will again call for revolutionary measures. What form will these measures take? What obstacles stand in the way of the planned reforms? What are their chances of success?

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  1. Cf. D. Lösch: Gorbatschows wirtschaftliche „Wende“ — Ziele, Mittel und Erfolgschancen, in: Hamburger Jahrbuch für Wirtschafts- und Gesellschaftspolitik, Vol. 31,1986.

  2. Cf. Nachrichten für Außenhandel, No. 142,29. 7.87.

  3. Cf. A. Aganbegyan: Umbau der sozialistischen Wirtschaft ist keine kurzfristige Kampagne, in: Handelsblatt, No. 9, 14. 1. 87.

  4. Cf. M. Gorbachev: Radykalna reforma zarządzania gospodarką — najwažniejszym ogniwem przebudowy, in: Trybuna Ludu, No. 148, 27.-28. 6. 87, p. 5.

  5. Cf. Romantyzm i realia gospodarki, an interview with L. Abalkin, in: Polityka. No. 47. 22. 11. 86. D. 11.

  6. Cf. M. Gorbachev: ?perestroyke i kadrovoy politike, in:Pravda, No. 28, 28.1.87.

  7. Cf. Zakon o gosudarstvennom predpriyatii (obyedinenii), in: Izveslia, No. 182, 1. 7. 87; see also Das sowjetische Betriebsgesetz, Ein Vergleich von Entwurf und Endfassung, Working Papers, No. 121, Osteuropa-Institut, Munich.

  8. See Preisreform für UdSSR unabdingbar, Gespäch mit M. Maximowa, in: Auβenhandelsdienst, No. 30, 30. 7. 87, p. 10.

  9. Cf. A. Aganbegyan: Począatek trudnej drogi, in: Trybuna Ludu, No. 149,29.6. 87, p. 6.

  10. Cf. W. Pavlov: Radikalnaya reforma tsenoobrazovaniya, in: Pravda, No. 237, 25.8.87, p. 2.

  11. Cf. A. Nove: Radical reform, Problems and prospects, in: Soviet Studies, No. 3, 1987; Yu. Borosdin: Tseny, intensifikatsya, effektivnost, in: EKO, No. 7, 1987.

  12. In future there are to be six independent banks in the USSR — Gosbank as the note-issuing bank, the Foreign Trade Bank, a Bank for Industry and Construction, an Agro-Industry Bank, a bank for the communal and housing sector and for social development and a bank for workers’ savings deposits and consumer credit. The last two have already been set up. See N. Ryzhkov: ? perestroyke upravleniya narodnym khozyaystrom na sovremennom etape ekonomicheskogo razvitiya strany, in: Pravda, No. 181, 30.6. 87, p. 4.

  13. Cf. A. Aganbegyan : Początek trudnej drogi, op. cit.

  14. With regard to measures to improve the management of the Soviet Union’s foreign trade relations, see supplement to the journal Außenhandel der UdSSR, No. 5, 1987.

  15. Cf. J. Shamrai: Die Umgestaltung des Systems der Außenwirtschaftsbeziehungen der UdSSR und das staatliche Außenhandelsmonopol, in: Außenhandel der UdSSR, No. 4, 1987, p. 8.

  16. Cf. O poryadke sozdaniya na territorii SSSR i deyatelnosti sovmestnykh predpriyatiy s uchastiyem sovetskikh organizatsiy i firm kapitalisticheskikh i razvivayushchikhsya stran, in: Izvestia, No. 28, 28. 1. 87.

  17. Cf. K. Bolz: Deutsch-sowjetischer Handelquo vadis? in: Wirtschaftsdienst, No. 8, 1987, p. 374.

  18. Cf. Handelsblatt, No. 126, 7. 7. 87, p. 8.

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Polkowski, A. The Soviet Union in Search of a New Economic Model. Intereconomics 22, 303–308 (1987). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02933173

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